Anna Winston
BIG wants to create new styles of vernacular architecture, says Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels has spoken of his desire to replace Modernism's "boring box" legacy with new kinds of localised architecture at a lecture at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (+ transcript). More
Waterscape by Alexander Lotersztain is a modular platform for living on water
Australia-based designer Alexander Lotersztain has created a floating platform system that can be customised with clip-on lighting, furniture, and docking facilities – and can even be used as a helipad (+ slideshow). More
Bjarke Ingels to deliver the Royal Academy Annual Architecture Lecture 2015
Dezeen promotion: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels will be the youngest architect ever to deliver the Annual Architecture Lecture at London's prestigious Royal Academy of Arts. More
Julian Lechner turns old coffee grounds into reusable cups
German designer Julian Lechner combined used coffee grounds with natural glues to create a new material, and has designed a set of cups to demonstrate its potential (+ slideshow). More
Assemble to fill RIBA gallery with Brutalist Playground
London Festival of Architecture 2015: Turner-nominated architecture studio Assemble has revealed plans to fill a gallery in the headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects with a spongy Brutalist-inspired landscape. More
Calatrava's City of Arts and Sciences is "insane" and "amazing" says George Clooney
Actor George Clooney and film director Brad Bird have heaped praise on Santiago Calatrava's cultural complex in Valencia, which features as a key location in their new film Tomorrowland. More
Jean Nouvel's first New York skyscraper will include three floors of MoMA gallery space
New images show details of the design for the 53W53 residential tower by French architect Jean Nouvel, which will occupy a site adjacent to the Museum of Modern Art on New York's 53rd Street. More
Bec Brittain's latest lighting collection features LED tubes arranged in diamond shapes
New York 2015: Brooklyn-based lighting designer Bec Brittain has launched a lighting collection called Zelda, based on diamond-shaped forms, as well as a new range of light diffusers. More
Phototrope shirt by Pauline van Dongen includes LEDs to improve safety for night runners
Dutch designer Pauline van Dongen has created an illuminated garment using LEDs and foil, designed to improve safety for runners on public roads and pathways. More
David Adjaye creates temporary museum for Venice Art Biennale 2015
British architect David Adjaye has filled the largest exhibition space at the Venice Biennale with a temporary museum and has also created a live events space for a seven-month reading of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (+ slideshow). More
Shigeru Ban's Venice biennale installation is made from thousands of makeup cases
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has designed a temporary addition to a 17th-century Venetian palazzo, featuring a curved structure covered with 90,000 empty containers usually used to hold eyeshadow. More
Tsibi Geva hides Israel's Venice biennale pavilion behind a wall of used tyres
Israeli artist Tsibi Geva has wrapped his country's Venice pavilion in old car tyres and filled it with a mixture of found architectural and household objects to explore ideas about the home (+ slideshow). More
Bistro in Vitro is a virtual restaurant serving the artificial meat dishes of the future
Dutch artist and philosopher Koert Mensvoort has launched a virtual restaurant featuring a menu of conceptual dishes that could be made possible by lab-grown meat – including knitted mince, a cocktail made from meat foam and sausages grown from living pets (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen opens New York office and launches dedicated US content
Dezeen has opened for business in New York! We now have an editorial team based in the city producing content about architecture and design in the United States, which can be found at www.dezeen.com/usa. More
Snøhetta designs new buildings for reopening of Swarovski's crystal theme park
Architecture firm Snøhetta has designed a series of new structures including a glass play tower with a faceted facade, as part of an expansion to the Swarovski Kristallwelten attraction in Austria (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen Mail #252
This week's Dezeen Mail includes OMA's Fondazione Prada, a ranking of the world's top architecture schools and Daniel Libeskind's dragon-inspired pavilion at the Milan Expo. Click through for all the latest news, jobs and reader comments from Dezeen.
Antonino Cardillo combines scent and texture for Illuminum Fragrance shop interior
Italian architect Antonino Cardillo has created a multi-sensory space for experiencing and buying fragrance by coating a room inside an old London building with volcanic ash (+ slideshow). More
"Sometimes you can say more by being quiet" says designer of UK's Milan Expo pavilion
Milan Expo 2015: to mark the opening of the British pavilion for the Milan Expo, Dezeen interviewed sculptor Wolfgang Buttress about trying to create a "quiet" structure in the middle of one of the world's biggest displays of "bombastic" temporary architecture (+ slideshow). More
Vangardist magazine prints 3000 copies with HIV+ blood-infused ink
Austrian men's magazine Vangardist has printed an edition using ink infused with the blood of HIV-positive people to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. More
Little Catch fishmonger in Shanghai is lined with a metal-frame "net"
Shanghai design studio Linehouse has overhauled a former takeaway restaurant to create a small fishmonger's on a busy street in the middle of the city's former French Concession (+ slideshow). More